Looking Back — Feb. 9, 2024
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This article was published 09/02/2024 (587 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Jake Milford, manager of the Wheat City Arena, has just sealed the deal to rent the arena to Gerry Myers and Associates for a real top-notch rodeo this Victoria Day weekend. The show will be an officially sanctioned meet of both the Rodeo Cowboys of America and the Cowboys Protective Association of Canada, and points gained by the cowboys will count toward the world championship.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
About 100 cashiers, food clerks, meat cutters and other members of the Retail Store Employees Union Local 832 began picketing this morning at 9 a.m. in front of the closed doors of both Brandon Safeway stores.
FORTY YEARS AGO
Astronauts Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewart unhooked lifelines today and became the first humans to fly free in space, using a gas-powered jet-pack to propel themselves more than 90 metres from the Earth-orbiting U.S. space shuttle Challenger and back again.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
More than 6,000 country music devotees packed into the Keystone Centre last night for a warm and fuzzy encounter with Nashville country chart toppers Sawyer Brown. Sharing the stage was Diamond Rio.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A group of seven friends drove to Brandon’s Keystone Centre from their Gainsborough, Sask., homes last night and huddled together until the centre’s doors opened at 6 a.m. yesterday in order to purchase Nickelback tickets. Nickelback performed to a full house last Tuesday night, months after the popular Canadian band’s tickets sold out in a 57-minute time span. Due to the band’s popularity, a March 11 concert was scheduled. This second performance sold out yesterday two and a half hours after TicketMaster opened.
For the second time in just over a week, residents of Stonewall lost their heat this weekend because of a blocked natural gas line.
TEN YEARS AGO
Little Beckham Koscielny’s ailing heart isn’t as strong as it should be, but it still generates a lot of love. Fellow Neepawa residents have proven eager to help the critically ill 11-month-old boy and his family. “It’s absolutely amazing,” says Beckham’s mom, Rochelle. “That’s kind of part of the charm of a small town. Everybody, they’re there for you in one way or another.”
A large piece of stage backdrop autographed by the Beatles during their first live U.S. concert 50 years ago is headed to auction, where it could draw US$800,000 to US$1 million. Face caricatures accompany the signatures that the Fab Four penned between sets of their historic Ed Sullivan appearance on Feb. 9, 1964, which they opened with “All My Loving” in front of 700 screeching fans in the audience and 73 million television viewers.